Thank you CWalczak, I cannot tell you just how much I appreciate your response. I am usually a very good researcher, but this is not my area at all. (If I can ever help you with the identification of painted art, please do not hesitate to email and ask.) I do not remember the last time I had quite so much fun, though. If you’d be interested in seeing my client’s window as it appears when light is shining through rather than upon its surface, email me through my profile, and I’ll be glad to send you a few views. I’d certainly welcome any additional thoughts you might have.
Things are slowing getting exciting with the research, as I think I am getting closer and closer to showing that the window, if not by Tiffany, has to be by one of his most gifted artisans. I’ve felt from the beginning, what with all the rich use of robe and feather glass, that it had to be a product of one of the true greats of the art. I feel it even more strongly now. I was lucky enough to have one of the country’s leading restoration, recovery, and renovation specialists be willing to look at my photos earlier in the week, and to give me his honest thoughts. At first, he honestly thought it might be a modern reproduction (he said “I was sure it was a fake”), as he said he has rarely, if ever, seen such a wealth of robe glass used in one of these smaller pieces (it is just under 7 feet in height). As he was the person hired to do the restoration work on the two most premier windows Tiffany ever built, I knew I was going to live or die by what he had to say. After showing it to be an antique piece, he has now become so enamored of the window, he has offered to help sell it when I finally reach that point of the process.
Oddly enough, the Smith Museum of Stained Glass does not have their own website, so I never really bothered to look too closely at them. After your suggestion, I did a quick search to see if anyone had posted any photos of the windows in the museum online, and found a few that have an oddly similar feel to them, especially the views where it shows light shining through from the back of the glass. (This is not shown in the photo posted above, of the window I am tracing. When light shines through from its reverse side, it takes on a very different appearance, becoming soft and much more ethereal than it now appears, when it is lit solely from the front.)
Thank you CWalczak, I cannot tell you just how much I appreciate your response. I am usually a very good researcher, but this is not my area at all. (If I can ever help you with the identification of painted art, please do not hesitate to email and ask.) I do not remember the last time I had quite so much fun, though. If you’d be interested in seeing my client’s window as it appears when light is shining through rather than upon its surface, email me through my profile, and I’ll be glad to send you a few views. I’d certainly welcome any additional thoughts you might have.
Things are slowing getting exciting with the research, as I think I am getting closer and closer to showing that the window, if not by Tiffany, has to be by one of his most gifted artisans. I’ve felt from the beginning, what with all the rich use of robe and feather glass, that it had to be a product of one of the true greats of the art. I feel it even more strongly now. I was lucky enough to have one of the country’s leading restoration, recovery, and renovation specialists be willing to look at my photos earlier in the week, and to give me his honest thoughts. At first, he honestly thought it might be a modern reproduction (he said “I was sure it was a fake”), as he said he has rarely, if ever, seen such a wealth of robe glass used in one of these smaller pieces (it is just under 7 feet in height). As he was the person hired to do the restoration work on the two most premier windows Tiffany ever built, I knew I was going to live or die by what he had to say. After showing it to be an antique piece, he has now become so enamored of the window, he has offered to help sell it when I finally reach that point of the process.
Like I said, “Fun!”
Oddly enough, the Smith Museum of Stained Glass does not have their own website, so I never really bothered to look too closely at them. After your suggestion, I did a quick search to see if anyone had posted any photos of the windows in the museum online, and found a few that have an oddly similar feel to them, especially the views where it shows light shining through from the back of the glass. (This is not shown in the photo posted above, of the window I am tracing. When light shines through from its reverse side, it takes on a very different appearance, becoming soft and much more ethereal than it now appears, when it is lit solely from the front.)